Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

A. SMITH.

CLOTHES DRIER. No. 428,535. Patented May 20, 1890.

mlllll E d w I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER SMITH, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

CLOTH ES-'DRIEFL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,535, dated May 20, 1890.

Application iiled November 3, 1888. Serial No. 289,915. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in clothes frames or driers; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim.

The principal object of the invention is to permit the clothes to be moved outside the house when the ground is muddy or there is snow thereon without rendering it necessary that the operator should govoutside and thereby wet or soil his feet.

In the accompanying` drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of a clothesdrier illustrating the invention. Fig. 2 represents an axial section of one of the parts of the detachable frame of the drier. Fig. 3 represents a front View of a supplementary frame that may, if desired, be attached to the drier.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the platform of the drier, composed of the side runners a and the planks ct connecting the same. The inner ends a2 of said runners are rabbeted, as shown in Fig. Land provided with pins co3, so that the said platform may be connected with the oppositelyrabbeted outer ends of the runners of a second drier by means of similar pins on the latter and wire loops connecting said pins and the pins 61,3.

To the outer end of the runners ais secured, preferably by rabbets and the connectingwires O, the vertical frame B braced internally by the diagonal strips b b.

To the inner edges of the side upright-s of the frame '13, near the upper end thereof, are secured the staples e, to which are hooked the ends of the Shanks 0f swinging loops E.

`The platform should be sufficiently narrow to pass through a door of ordinary width, else the device could not be moved from the inside to the outside of the house. The platform may, however, be as long as desired, provided that it can entirely enter the room in which it is to be filled with clothes.

A detachable folding standard of proper size and proportions to rest ou the platform A has at its joints the posts D-four in numberthe inner two of which are connected by the horizontal rails d, while each inner post is connected to the free or swinging post on the same side by horizontal rails d2. The length of the rails d mustbe such that the inner posts D, which they connect, may rest upon the platform, as shown in Fig. l, While the rails d2 may be of any desired length not greater than that of the platform. The inner posts D are placed upon the platform adjacent to the frame B, and the swinging loops E are passed over their upper ends down to the upper rails d2, thus .retaining the folding frame in proper position on the platform.

The manner of using the drier is as follows: The frames are filled with clothes when the device is in the wash-room, and is then slid out of the door till its inner end is' clear thereof. Vhen the frame is entirely out'of the doorway, the wings of the folding frame, which wings are composed of the rails (Z2 and end posts D, may be turned outward to any desired angle upon the central part .of the folding frame. The runners permit the frames to be moved` thus outward over snow or mud, and if it is necessary to inspect the clothes while drying the operator may walk out on the platform without soiling his feet.

The parts are preferably constructed as follows: d is an axial rod, upon which are mounted a proper number of cylindricalblocks between which the ends of the rails d d2 are pivoted on the rod, which is threaded at its ends and has the end cylindricalblocks screwed thereon to keep the rails and remaining blocks in place, as shown in Fig. 2. If desired, arms cl3, having free ends, may be pivoted on the rods d of the end posts D, as seen in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 shows a secondary frame E of similar construction to the described folding frame, and with its end posts connected to the end posts of said folding frame by wire loops f, in the manner shown in Fig. l.

The wings of the folding-frame maybe long IOO enough to hold sheets and other large articles nected to the frame B and having side Wings to dry. that can be turned outward at right angles to Having described my invention, I claiinthe sides of the platform when the latter has The combination, in a clothes-drier, of the been slid out of a doorway. 5 platform A, provided with the side runners Ct, In testimony whereof Iaflixmysignature in 15 and narrower than an ordinary doorway, the presence of two Witnesses.

frame B, rising from and secured to the outer ALEXANDER SMITH. or front end of the platform and having a Vitnesses: Width equal to that of the latter, and a frame FRANK S. BLEENE,

1c standing on the platform, detaohably oon- JAMES P. SMITH. 

